Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Herbert, Henry William, 1807-1858
Title:
Frank Forester's horse and horsemanship of the United States and British provinces of North America / by Henry William Herbert ... ; with steel-engraved original portraits of celebrated horses ... ; in two volumes.
Alternate Title(s):
Horse of America
Published / Created:
New York : Stringer & Townsend ; 1857.

London : Trübner & Co., 1857.
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 29 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
SF283 .H47 1857+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Podeschi, J.B. Books on the horse and horsemanship, 192

BEIN Za H415 857: One of four copies bound for presentation.

Added engraved title: The horse of America.

Steel engravings by John Chester Buttre, Capewell & Kimmell, Robert Hinshelwood, James Smillie, and James Duthie; after William F. Atwood, Robert A. Clarke, Alvan Fisher, Edward Troye, V.M. Griswold, Henri Delattre, Felix Octavius Carr Darley, and Louis Maurer.

Wood engravings by Nathaniel Orr.

1st issue of 1st ed.

BAC: British Art Center copy: Bound in publisher's original gilt- and blind-stamped gray cloth.
Subject Terms:
Horses -- Breeding -- America. | Horses -- America. | Horses -- History. | Trübner & co. -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1857. | Steel engravings -- 1857.
Contributors:
Buttre, John Chester, 1821–1893, engraver. | Atwood, William F., active 1858–1860, engraver. | Capewell & Kimmel (Firm), engraver. | Clarke, Robert A., approximately 1817, engraver. | Duthie, James, engraver, engraver. | Hinshelwood, Robert, 1812–, engraver. | Orr, Nathaniel, engraver. | Smillie, James, 1807–1885, engraver. | Darley, Felix Octavius Carr, 1822–1888, ill. | Delattre, Henri, 1801–1876, ill. | Fisher, Alvan, 1792–1863, ill. | Griswold, V. M., ill. | Maurer, Louis, 1832–1932, ill. | Troye, Edward, 1808–1874, ill.